Rowland Croucher
Fastest-growing Major Religions in the World
from http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3835 Islam Growth rate*: 1.84 percent Adherents: 1.3 billion Behind the trend: High birthrates in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe Areas to watch: The world’s largest Muslim populations are in fast-growing countries such as Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Egypt, and Iran. Islam also happens to be the fastest growing religion in Europe, where […]
Timeline: Fundamentalism vs Contemporary Theology
TIMELINE : FUNDAMENTALISM VS CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY By a friend. January 2010 (with some help from Karen Armstrong’s “On The Bible” (Allen& Unwin: 2007): ‘I used some of the dates and incidents mentioned in that. Her analysis of Mrs Humphry Ward’s “Robert Elsmore” demonstrates the unrest caused by Higher Criticism in 1888.’) ***** 1000s CE – […]
An Education in Fundamentalist Scholarship
– Bruce Prescott …. Roman Catholics can trace a direct line of institutional continuity all the way back to the first century. At times, Baptists have envied that heritage and have tried to supplant it. One of the most popular attempts to do so was written by J.M. Carroll, who served as president of Oklahoma […]
The Crisis of Faith
by Duncan Park In spite of loud protestations to the contrary, I maintain that it’s actually all over for ‘The Faith’ as we know it. Forget the evangelical razzamatazz, the fundamentalist bluster, and the catholic arrogance. The situation for faith is so desperate I believe a “state of emergency” should be declared in the Church. […]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters and Papers from Prison
An online friend offers quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Letters and Papers from Prison” (SCM:1953) … my suspicion and horror of religiosity are greater than ever. p. 44 By the way it is remarkable how little I miss going to church. I wonder why. p. 54 I am sure that in view of all the misery […]
Chamomile Tea
A woman goes to the doctor, beaten black and blue. Doctor: “What happened?” Woman: “Doctor, I don’t know what to do. Every time my husband comes home drunk he beats me to a pulp.” Doctor: “I have a real good medicine for that. When your husband comes home drunk, just take a glass of chamomile […]
Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s shooting spree
by Mark Durie When Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood on November 5, killing 13 and wounding 30, the question on everyone ¯ ¿ ½s lips was ¯ ¿ ½Why? ¯ ¿ ½ Many speculated about his mental state, but a Pentagon report has asked why his supervising officers did not pay closer attention to his religious […]
Letter from the church in Jos Nigeria
A letter from the church in Jos Nigeria 21 January 2010 Dear Friends, Peace and greetings. Everyone is asking: Why? Why are Muslims and Christians unable to live together in peace on the Jos Plateau? Why is there a continuing recurrence of violence? These are questions people in Nigeria and journalists from all over the […]
Saints (a sermon for All Saints’ Day)
We Belong to God In popular Christian vocabulary the word ‘saint’ is used to mean a particularly good Christian, one whose way of life is superior to the ordinary, run of the mill believers like you or me. Indeed, for us to presume to sainthood might even be seen by some as egotistical; ‘I’m no […]
Drug Prohibition Doesn’t Work?
Drug prohibition doesn’t work – so what do we do next? CHRIS MIDDENDORP Jan 7 2010 It’s not Suzanne’s fault that she became addicted to heroin at 16. For a while it numbed the emotional pain of the abuse she suffered as a ward of the state. Four years later, she uses heroin three times […]
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